Need an energetic desk for a large touring show with a complex rig? Looking for a board that saves space in control rooms without scrimping on power? Want a desk compact enough to carry from the control booth to the tech table every day? ETC's Gio® is an on-the-go road warrior in a tidy footprint that can handle shows of any size with ease. Boasting the programming capacity of the Eos Titanium (Eos Ti ® ) desk, Gio is ready to hit the road.
Product Features
4,096 or 24,576 outputs with no co-processing.
Dedicated master-playback fader pair
10 definable motorized faders, with 100 pages of control
8 user-definable buttons
Four pageable haptic encoders
Two integral articulating 12.1" LCD multi-touch displays.
Supports 3 external high resolution Display Port monitors; can be single- or multi-touch
Three user-definable workspaces per monitor, each with discrete split-screen controls and frame management. Additionally, single- or multiple-screen snapshots allow instant reconfiguration.
Custom-design your control interface using Magic Sheets, with topographical or abstract layouts. Full interaction with the command line allows command instructions - from the simplest and most immediate to the most complex - accessed from a mouse or single- or multi-touch displays.
Configure and program pixel-map layouts, using integral or custom-designed content.
Device discovery and troubleshooting via RDM
ETC Sensor® CEM+, CEM3™ and FDX dimmer feedback and controls
ETCNet3™ (ACN- based), ETCNet2™, Artnet and Avab® UDP protocol output
External Backlit alpha-numeric keyboard
Multiple MIDI and SMPTE Inputs
OSC and UDP Transmit and Receive
Client/server networking and synchronized backup
Client and Offline programming on PC (Windows 7 or higher) and native on Macintosh (El Capitan v10.11 or later), via Nomad™
Data-laundering from Obsession™, Express™, Expression®, Emphasis®, Congo®, Cobalt™, Transtechnik NT, Avab VLC, Grand MA1, Grand MA2 and Strand 500/300 series show files.
99 discrete online users with partitioned control
System Capacity
4096 or 24,576 outputs*
32,768 Control Channels (mapped to any number from 1 to 99,999)
10,000 Cues
999 Cue Lists
999 Submasters
100 Fader Pages
4 x 1000 Palettes (Intensity, Focus, Color, Beam)
1000 Presets (all palette)
1000 Groups
1000 Effects (relative, absolute or step)
99.999 Macros
1000 Snapshots
1000 Curves
1000 Color Paths
Solid state hard drive
USB ports for flash drives, pointing devices, keyboards
*Devices with 3 DVI connectors on the back panel can upgrade to 16,384 outputs.
Interfaces
Two individually configurable ethernet ports, 802.3af compliant PSE
ETCNet2™, Net3™ (powered by ACN), and Artnet and Avab UDP output protocols
Four DMX-512 / RDM Ports
Contact closure triggers via D-Sub connector
Three Display Port connectors support high-resolution external displays (1280x1024 minimum) with optional single-touch or multi-touch screen control. Display port to DVI adapters are provided.
USB multipurpose (seven ports)
MIDI Timecode, MIDI Show Control, MIDI Notes through Gateway
OSC Transmit and Receive
UDP Transmit and Receive
SMPTE Timecode through Gateway
Contact closure (12 analog inputs, 12 SPDT contact outputs, RS-232) through Gateway
